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title: [1] This is a common proverb:—_Kappa mo oboré-shini_. — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [1] This is a common proverb:—_Kappa mo oboré-shini_. Who acts: This. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu[1], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 126

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\[1\] This is a common proverb:—\_Kappa mo oboré-shini\_.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** common proverb

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu\[1\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8128:27:127
# text = [1] This is a common proverb:—_Kappa mo oboré-shini_.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	proverb	proverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Kappa	Kappa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	oboré	oboré	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	shini	shini	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | a common proverb |  |  |  | 1 *discourse*; Kappa mo oboré *appos* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Project Gutenberg book 8128 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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